1999-2000

September, 1999

Jennifer Crispen

  • Reviewed a new anthology on womenÕs sport by Jolie Sandoz and Joby Winans for the Richmond Times Dispatch. ÒWhatever It Takes: Women on WomenÕs SportÓ was published this month by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux and the review appeared on August 15, 1999.
  • Headed the field hockey program at the Penn Monto Sports Camp held at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania the last week in July.
  • This fall Jennifer will once again chair both the Southern Regional and the National Division III Field Hockey All-America Committees for the National Field Hockey Coaches Association.

Pam DeWeese

  • Participated in the ÒSpanish Faculty Development in International BusinessÓ seminar coordinated by the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina at Columbia from June 24 Ð July 1, 1999. The program is the result of a ÒCIBERÓ grant given to the Business School by the federal government and has the purpose of bringing together faculty in Spanish language, literature, and culture, with faculty and professionals in the field of international business. Pam received one of the CIBER scholarships in the amount of $500 which was applied to her registration in the program.

Jonathan Green

  • Finished his book: ÒA ConductorÕs Guide to the Choral-Orchestral Works of J.S. BachÓ in May, 1999
  • Taught the Graduate Seminar in Advanced Conducting Techniques at UNC-Greensboro
  • Taught voice for the North Carolina Methodist Honor Choir, and performed on their faculty recital at Greensboro College
  • Composed a piano sonata for Rebecca McNutt and a song cycle for Allen Huszti, and is finishing up a concerto grosso for brass quintet and band
  • Has accepted a one-year appointment as Interim Music Director of the Greensboro Concert Band, which is a community band sponsored by the city. He conducted a concert at the Guilford Courthouse National Battlefield with them on August 1, 1999.
  • Received another ASCAP Annual Award for Composition

Barbara Perry

  • Published The Priestly Tribe: The Supreme CourtÕs Image In The American Mind
  • Co-authored with Steve Bragaw ÒRosenkrantz and Guildenstern ArenÕt Dead Yet: Understanding the Evolving Federalism Jurisprudence of Justices Sandra Day OÕConnor and Anthony KennedyÓ to be presented at the American Political Science AssociationÕs annual meeting in Atlanta, September 1-5
  • Taught in the Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers in Washington
  • Was a guest commentator for Wisconsin Public Radio on the presidential pay raise
  • Wrote and delivered a commentary on the 14th Amendment for ÒWith Good ReasonÓ on Virginia Public Radio
  • Was interviewed for a feature story on the Supreme Court by the Christian Science Monitor and for a feature story on Congress by Knight-Ridder newspapers

Steve Wassell

During his sabbatical and subsequent leave of absence, Steve:

  • Earned an M.C.S. (MasterÕs of Computer Science) degree from the University of Virginia (May 1999);
  • Gave an invited presentation entitled ÒThe Mathematics of PalladioÕs VillasÓ at the conference Nexus Õ98: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics, in Mantua, Italy (June 1998), the manuscript for which was published in the conference proceedings;
  • Received a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to fund his participation as the leader of a research workshop, immediately following Nexus Õ98, to study eight of PalladioÕs villas in situ with several conference participants (June 1998);
  • Published a report of the Palladio villa workshop in the online Nexus Network Journal ( which included further discussion of the mathematical qualities of the Renaissance masterÕs designs (NNJ, v. 1, n. 2, April 1999)
  • Wrote two papers, ÒSuperexponentiation and Fixed Points of Exponential and Logarithmic FunctionsÓ (favorably reviewed by the referees of Mathematics Magazine) and ÒRevisiting (and Renaming) a Family of MeansÓ (submitted to the Mathematical Intelligencer).
October 1999

Rosalia Ascari

  • Was the organizer and the chair of a special Italian session at the Northeast Conference in New York, April 8-11. She also read a paper on ÒItalian Language and DialectsÓ.
  • Read a paper on Gianni Amelio last movies during the annual conference of the A.A.I.S. in Eugene, Oregon April 16-19, 1999.

Steve Bragaw

  • ÒDefending the Capacity to Govern: The Intergovernmental Lobby and the U.S. Supreme CourtÓ was nominated by its committee for the Edward S. Corwin prize of the American Political Science Association Law and Courts Section for Best Dissertation, 1999.
  • Presented a paper, ÒUnderstanding the Evolving Federalism Jurisprudence of Justices Sandra Day OÕConnor and Anthony KennedyÓ with Professor Barbara Perry to the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 4, 1999.
  • Presented a paper ÒThe Governors and Mayors as Intergovernmental Lobbyists of the Supreme CourtÓ to the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 3, 1999.
  • Presented a paper ÒThe Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the American Indian Nations: The Reorganization Era, 1934-1980Ó to the Twentieth Century Supreme Court History Seminar of the Supreme Court Historical Society/Georgetown University Law Center Institute for Constitutional Studies, Washington, DC, June 14, 1999.
  • The Habits of Democracy: Visions of democratic citizenship from Aristotle, James Madison, and Alexis de Tocqueville. Presentation to the Virginia Citizenship Institute Summer Seminar, June 2, 1999.
  • Presented a paper ÒZoning the City on the Hill: The Lessons of City of Boerne v Flores for American Public Law LitigationÓ to the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society and Society Association, May 30, 1999.

Judith Evans Grubbs

  • Was asked to give one of the keynote papers at the annual meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians May 7-9 at Columbia University. Her talk was on ÒSons or Slaves? The Sale and Abandonment of children by their parents in late antiquity.Ó

Allen Huszti

  • Sang the bass solos in the Schubert Mass in G Major with the Christ Church Choir (Roanoke) and the Garth Newell Chamber Players on May 16 in Roanoke.
  • Attended the Alexander Technique Workshop at Sweet Briar, July 13-18. Performed in a participantsÕ concert at the workshop.
  • Taught harpsichord, organ and fortepiano at the Suzuki Institute, July 26-August 7, at Sweet Briar and was the InstituteÕs faculty accompanist. Performed in two Faculty Recitals.

Sang Hwang

  • Presented a paper entitled ÒNew Science and Sustainable DevelopmentÓ and chaired a session at the 4th International Conference on Linking Systems Thinking, Innovation, Quality, Entrepreneurship and Environment at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. The paper was published in the conference proceedings edited by Miroslav Rebernik and Matajz Mulej. University of Maribor, Slovenia.
  • Gave an Invited Presentation on ÒGeneral Evolutionary Theory and the EnvironmentÓ at the 43rd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in Asilomar, California July 1999. The paper entitled ÒA General Evolutionary Perspective onSustainable DevelopmentÓ was published in the Conference proceedings.
  • Nominated and Invited by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to be the Honorary Theme Editor for the Life Support Systems project within the Global Sustainable Development area in June 1999.

Bessie Kirkwood

  • Co-author with Jean-Yves Royer, Theodore C. Chang, and Richard G. Gordon of ÒStatistical tools for estimating and combing finite rotations and their uncertaintiesÓ, Geophysical Journal International, March 1999.

Laura Pharis

  • Is having a solo exhibition in the Babcock Gallery concurrently with her son Buck JohnsonÕs show in Benedict.
  • In August and September, she participated in ÒIn InkÓ a group show at CudahyÕs Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, with One/Off Printmakers, of which she is a founding member.
  • In September, she participating in another group show, The Nimrod Hall Exhibition at the James Center, also in Richmond.
  • Is serving as Chair of the Fiddle Competition at the Richmond Highland Games and Celtic Festival in October 1999.

Mike Richards

  • Made a joint presentation with Phil Riley of James Madison University on ÒThe 100 Greatest Events in Twentieth Century World History: Adventures in Doing World HistoryÓ on September 11, 1999. The presentation was based on a book that Greenwood Press will publish, <Term Paper Resource Guide to 20th Century World History>. The presentation was well received by the group, the Southern Atlantic Region of the Historical Society (this was the inaugural meeting for the Southern Atlantic Region).

Brent Shea

  • Was appointed to the Editorial Board of International Scope Review, an interdisciplinary electronic journal of articles on social and economic transformations and interpersonal relations in advanced industrial and post-industrial societies (published in Brussels).
  • Was appointed by the Council of the American Sociological Association to its Task Force on the International Focus of American Sociology, made up of scholars with expertise in international research and teaching who are charged with making recommendations to the ASA about its teaching materials and annual conference program.
  • Was re-appointed Vice President of the board of governors of Ius Primi Viri, an international human rights education association based on Rome.
  • Was a delegate to the Annual Meeting of the American Association of University Professors, Washington, DC, June 8-10.

Reetika Vazirani

  • Is poet of the month (September). This is the web site:
  • Received a Pushcart Prize, which is an award for the best poems, stories, essays published in a calendar year. Her award is for a poem published in Prairie Schooner. It will be included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology next year.
  • The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets, to be published next year by Wesleyan University Press, will include four poems by Reetika.
  • Ntozake Shange, author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is not Enough, chose a poem by Reetika to be included in The Beacon Best, to be released later this year by Beacon Press.
  • Received a fellowship from The Bread Loaf WritersÕ Conference, the oldest sort of writersÕ conference in the country. August 1999.
  • Spent a month in residence at Yaddo, an artistsÕ colony in Saratoga Springs, New York.
November 1999

Jody Bart

  • Edited a book of conference proceedings entitled ÒWomen Succeeding in the Sciences: Theories and Practices Across Disciplines.Ó

Steve Bragaw

  • Presented ÒInterest Group Litigation in the Court of the Conqueror: The Native American Rights Fund in the Rehnquist Court, 1986-1999Ó to the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, Georgia, November 4, 1999.
  • Presented ÒEqual Protection: Gender and Sexuality DiscriminationÓ to the ÒBill of Rights, the Courts, and the LawÓ series sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy and Historic Christ Church, Irvington, Virginia, October 21, 1999.
  • Served as internal book reviewer for Superintending Democracy for Akron University Press.
  • Served as internal article reviewer for ÒAnalyzing Policy Change by the United States Supreme Court: Combining the Legal and Social Science ApproachesÓ for Political ScienceQuarterly.
  • Performed Election Day analysis and punditry for WLNI radio, November 2, 1999.

Carlos Calle

  • Is the principal investigator for the Kennedy Space Center team responsible for the calibration and testing of the MECA Electrometer, an instrument designed jointly by Kennedy Space Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to fly on the Mars Global Surveyor 2001 Mission lander
  • Gave an invited talk at the Second Partners in Research and Education Conference, Kennedy Space Center, October 5-8, 1999, entitled ÒElectrostatics of Dust in Martian Atmosphere.Ó
  • Recently published the following papers:

-ÒCalle, C.I., ÒAn Experimental Design to Determine the Electrostatic Properties of Martian Simulant Dust Particles,Ó 1998 Research Reports, NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, NASA CR-1999-208546, 1999.

-H.S. Kim, D. Jackson, A. Finchum, R. Gompf, R. Lee, D. Lewis, M. Parenti, J. Bayliss, J. Rauwerdink, P. Richuso, and C. Calle, ÒStudy of the Electrostatic Charging and Discharging of Materials in a Simulated Martian Environment,Ó in Research and Technology 1998 Annual Report, J. F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA Technical Memorandum 208545, 1998.

John Goulde

Presented a paper ÒKorean Culture Beyond the Peninsula: Korean Contributions to World CultureÓ Annual Conference on Korean Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, May 8-10, 1999

  • Presented a paper ÒKorean Contributions to North Asian Culture,Ó 4th Annual International Korean Studies Conference on Koreans Abroad, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, July 27-30, 1999
  • Published a paper ÒTracing the Historical and Cultural Roots of Korean Ethno-Nationalism,Ó Acta Koreana, Vol. 2, July 1999
  • Participant in VFIC Technology Workshop on Video Technology, at the University of Richmond, August 9-11, 1999
  • Presented a paper ÒChanging Perceptions of U.S.-Korea Relations: From Cold War Big Brother to Regional Arbiter,Ó 14th Annual Conference of the U.S.-Korea Security Studies Council, Arlington, Virginia, October 27-29, 1999

Allen Huszti

  • Presented a Faculty Voice Recital on October 24, 1999 at Sweet Briar College. The program included the premiere of a song cycle by Jonathan Green.

Ella and Mark Magruder

  • Ella Magruder performed "Black Traveller", and Mark Magruder performed in "Dad's Ties", choreography by Beverley Blossom, at the ContextTheatre in New York City, Sept. 24-25, 1999.
  • Together they performed with their dance company, Menagerie, for the Community Arts Council of Buchanan County, on 5/6/99; for Virginia Highlands Community College in Abingdon on 5/5/99; in Augusta County -three performances at StuartÕs Draft Middle School 3/3/99; three performances at Stewart Middle School. in Ft. Defiance, VA 3/2/99; three performances at Beverley Manor Middle School in Staunton, VA 2/26/99; and one performance at Amelon Elementary in June 1999. They taught 60 workshops in dance for children in Augusta Co. VA 6/17-30/99.
Barbara Perry
  • Gave two public lectures for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in October: one in Orange on the public image of the Supreme Court and one in Charlottesville on women and the law.
  • Published an editorial, ÒWomen Gain Rights Under the ConstitutionÓ in the CharlottesvilleDaily Progress.
December 1999

Stephen Bragaw

  • Will present a paper ÒHawaiian Punch? Understanding the implications of Rice v. Cayetano on Native American Sovereignty and Voting RightsÓ to the Virginia Conference of Political Scientists, December 4, 1999, Richmond, VA.

Claudia Chang

  • The ethnoarchaeology of pastoral sites in the Grevena Region of Northern Greece. In Transhumant Pastoralism in Southern Europe: Recent Perspectives from Archaeology, History and Ethnology edited by Laszlo Bartosiewicz and Haskel J. Greenfield. pp. 133-144. Budapest: Archaeolingua Series Minor 11.
  • Claudia Chang and Fedor P. Grigoriev 1999. A Preliminary Report of the 1994-1996 Field Seasons at Tuzusai, an Iron Age site (ca. 400 B.C. Ð 100 A.D.) in Southeastern Kazakhstan. Eurasien Antiqua Volume 5, (pages numbers unknown, pp. 1-20).(published in Berlin, Germany)

Pamela DeWeese

  • Book manuscript has been accepted for publication by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. in New York
  • Will present a paper at the Luis Goytisolo Seventh Annual International Symposium on Hispanic Literature on Wednesday, November 24 entitled ÒEl eroticismo y la bœsqueda del yo en Cielo dividido de Reina RoffŽ.Ó She will interview the author in Madrid on Sunday, November 21.
  • Will moderate a round table discussion at the same symposium on November 25th.

Ron Horwege

  • Publication: ÒWilhelm von PolenzÕs ÔDer BŸttnerbauerÕ The German Farmer Confronts the Modern World,Ó Politics in German Literature Festschrift for Frank Ryder. Edited by Beth Bjorklund & Mark F. Cory, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1998.
  • Publication with Ralph GrŸneberger, a poet from Leipzig, of a bilingual edition of GrŸnebergerÕs poetry: Du Bist und Du Bist Nicht (You Are and You are Not). Professor Horwege translated the poems into English and wrote a commentary about them. The book is available in the Book Shop.
  • Participated in a seminar on German Script at Moravian College, summer 1999.
  • Traveled in May to Leipzig to complete editorial work on the above-mentioned publication.
  • Participated in a seminar on Teaching German Culture in Charlottesville May 8, 1999.
  • Organized and Co-Directed the fourth Sweet Briar-Goethe Institute Immersion Weekend for Germany Teachers in October 1999.
  • Hosted the poet Ralph GrŸneberger in October 1999. With GrŸneberger he participated in several discussions with students and in two poetry readings, one at Sweet Briar College and one at the VCCA.
  • With Ralph GrŸneberger he participated in the annual Conference of the Foreign Language Association in Richmond in October, where they presented two sessions together.
  • Has recently been elected for a third term as President of the Virginia Chapter of The American Association of Teachers of German.
  • Organized and participated with Birgit Schweckendiek from the Goethe Institute and German writer Sabine Appel in a forthcoming discussion of AppelÕs recent work: ÒGoethe und die Frauen.Ó (December 8, 1999).
  • Chairman of the Selection Committee for the AATG-PAD scholarship trips to Germany for high school students.
  • Reviewer of intermediate German text ÒKaleidoskopÓ for Houghton Mifflin Company, November, 1999.
  • Outside consultant and evaluator for German Program self-study at Mary Washington College, November, 1999.

Michael Richards

  • Attended the 1999 meeting of the Southern Historical Association where he chaired session number 41 ÒBelief Systems and Ideologies in Twentieth-Century Europe.Ó

Mimi Wroten

  • Has been granted a judges license from the American Horse Shows Association (AHSA), the national equestrian federation of the United States. After being reviewed by the Licensed Officials Committee she was approved to judge in Hunter and Hunter Seat Equitation divisions.

February 2000

Steve Bragaw

  • Has a paper entitled ÒThe Governors and Mayors as Intergovernmental Lobbyists of the Supreme CourtÓ that has been nominated as Best Paper presented to the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section.
  • Presented ÒAmerican Indian Tribal Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme CourtÓ to the ÒCollege for a dayÓ program co-sponsored by the SBC Denver Colorado Alumnae Association.
  • Appointed as outside curriculum advisor to the ABA Street Law/Supreme Court historical Society program for revamping the teaching of civil rights and liberties in the Washington D.C. public school system.
  • Has been nominated for the Mednick Memorial Fellowship, Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges.

Jonathan Green

  • In December, he did a residency in the music department at the University of Massachusetts that included giving a lecture on his music, conducting rehearsals, and conducting two of his works on a concert there.
  • In January, he attended the annual conference of the Conductors Guild in New York. The Guild is the principal organization for conductors with membership in all 50 states and 30 other countries. At that conference, he was appointed editor of ÒPodium Notes,Ó their quarterly newsletter. This comes with a concurrent seat on their board of directors.
  • He also completed a horn sonata entitled ÒHubertÕs Vengeance,Ó and a cantata for the spring ensemblesÕ concert called ÒShards of Beauty,Ó and will finish a re-orchestration of another work for that concert during the week of January 24, 2000.

Scott Hyman

  • Scott Hyman and collaborators at the Naval Research Laboratory, Caltech, and Kennesaw State University have had two articles accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal: ÒDiscrete Radio Sources in NGC 6946Ó and ÒA Wide Field 90 cm Image of the Galactic CenterÓ. The Galactic Center image ( also appears in the December 1999 issue of Discover Magazine and October 1999 issue of National Geographic.

Barbara Perry